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Clinical study to support FDA filing

Calcivis, a medical devices company focused on revolutionising the management of tooth decay and enabling preventive dentistry, has announced that it has begun recruitment into a clinical study of...

“It’s like having a hygienist in the bathroom”

Renowned for innovation, Philips’ new product connects the digital world with dental care. Want to know how it works? Here, oral health expert and dental hygienist Christina Chatfield, puts it through...

Dental school signs collaboration agreement with fourth institution in China

Plymouth University Peninsula School of Dentistry has signed a collaboration agreement with the Shen Yang Hospital of Stomatology – the fourth Chinese institution with which it has forged a...

Dentists appeal to parents and government to end costly scourge of sugar on children’s teeth

New figures published on January 11, by the Local Government Association (LGA) show there were more than 40,000 hospital operations to remove rotting teeth in children and teenagers last year,...

New international president announced

Mervyn Druian, co-founder of The London Centre for Cosmetic Dentistry has become the honoured International President of the Alpha Omega Dental Society for 2017.

Commenting on 'cake culture'

Following concerns expressed by the Faculty of Dental Surgery (FDS) on January 3, that a ‘cake culture’ in UK workplaces is having a negative impact on oral health, Sameer Patel of elleven has...

Toothache piling financial pressure on A&E

A new study reveals cost of dental patients at A&E could be ten times official government estimates. Dental leaders say costs to NHS could now be as much as £18m.

Dentists treating the most vulnerable failed by Stormont

The British Dental Association (BDA) has lambasted the Northern Ireland Government for backtracking on an agreement to modernise the contracts of community dentists, who serve the most vulnerable...

ICDE is back for 2017

Now an established part of the dental education calendar, Ivoclar Vivadent’s ICDE event is back for 2017, bigger and better than ever. Following on from the sell out successes of 2010 to 2015, this...

Making Tax Digital – “severe headache” for dentists

HMRCs new Making Tax Digital (MTD) scheme will present “a severe headache” for the majority of dentists and be yet another cost that they will have to cover. That’s according to NASDAL (the National...

Oral health in care homes

A leading dental academic and clinician from Plymouth University, Professor Elizabeth Kay MBE, has played a key role in a draft quality standard to improve oral health in care homes and hospitals...

Seven things to look out for in dentistry in 2017

As 2017 begins, we enter what promises to be another exciting and intriguing year in the world of dentistry.

Member of the Order of the British Empire for dental academic and clinician

Professor Liz Kay, foundation dean at the Peninsula Dental School at Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry (PUPSMD), has been awarded a Member of the Order of the British...

Comment on letter to Daily Telegraph

The British Dental Association has commented on the publication of a letter from dental professionals in the Daily Telegraph, which calls for the dental system in England to be removed from...

New research standards on tooth loss

A huge success and leap forward for dental science, this year’s Perio Workshop outcomes were the result of a significant collaboration between the EFP (European Federation of Periodontology) and ORCA...